Mary Coughlan
Ceist:298 Miss Coughlan asked the Minister for Justice if she will have arrangements made to investigate the reason a prisoner was not thoroughly searched on leaving Mountjoy Prison on 13 November 1996; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the prisoner subsequently attacked a garda while trying to escape at Ballyshannon, County Donegal, on his way to court in Milford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21830/96]